Love
 
      
      
      
        The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
      
      
    
   
      
      
      
        Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.
      
      
    
   
      
      
      
        No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
      
      
    
   
      
      
      
        Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
      
      
    
   
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
      